Inn (Rhyderonnen)

A Grade II Listed Building in Talley, Carmarthenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9539 / 51°57'13"N

Longitude: -3.9871 / 3°59'13"W

OS Eastings: 263541

OS Northings: 230239

OS Grid: SN635302

Mapcode National: GBR DW.M3N5

Mapcode Global: VH4HQ.V500

Entry Name: Inn (Rhyderonnen)

Listing Date: 7 December 1987

Last Amended: 1 March 1995

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 15774

Building Class: Commercial

Location: In centre of hamlet by roadside with gardens opposite on bank of Afon Dulais.

History

Rhyderonnen was given as a marriage settlement in 1807 when it consisted of "land, 2 cottages and common grazing". The terrace postdates this period, but was built before 1839 when the whole terrace is shown on the Tithe map. The inn has flourished since at least 1841, when David Evans was its tenant.

Later lean to extension to right with boarded door and 6-pane steel window above. Sash to return elevation as front of inn, brick reveals and head. Rest of terrace consists of a 7-window range to left of inn with roundarched heads to ground floor openings; stone voussoirs, blank tympana. Ground floor window of post office with wooden shutters, 4-pane horned sash. Ground floor windows of cottages are 3 over 2 pane sashes (horned). Boarded doors with steps. Upper windows with cambered heads; stone voussoirs, alternatingly blind. Original 12-pane hornless sash to first floor of shop, the rest are Victorian sashes as below. Stone sills. G.R post box towards left end.

Lower 2-storey hayloft and stable to left end.Rubble rear with appropriate recent lean-tos of rubble and corrugated iron.Tiny ground floor casement to inn. Raised doorway to post office with wooden steps. Stone voussoired cambered head, boarded door. 4-pane casements to both floors of post office, the upper with head as door, stone lintel to other. Similar window to stable with stone sill and lintel.

Low whitewashed rubble walls across lane with mounting-block, gardens behind. Rubble whitewashed double toilet in SE corner of garden with single-slope corrugated roof. This belonged to the former schoolroom (village hall) opposite,its long fore-walls dividing the sexes. Single toilet to S, similarly built with slate roof.

Reasons for Listing

Purchased by the National Trust in 1991. Fully restored and reopened October
1994.

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